Universal 880: high back unrounded vowel ⇒ high front unrounded vowel
- Original
- A high back unrounded vowel implies a high front unrounded vowel.
- Standardized
- IF there is a high back unrounded vowel, THEN there will be a [corresponding?] high front unrounded vowel.
- Keywords
- high, back, front, vowel, unrounded
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- implication
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- 170 languages surveyed in Sedlak 1969
- Source
- Sedlak 1969: 31
- Counterexamples
